Erroll McDonald is Vice President and Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf. In his decades-long career, he has published four winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kazuo Ishiguro, Toni Morison, and Wole Soyinka. Other writers he has published include: Toni Cade Bambara, Romare Bearden, Harold Bloom, Italo Calvino, Patrick Chamoiseau, Sandra Cisneros, Julio Cortazar, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Margo Jefferson, Randall Kennedy, Laila Lalami, Fran Lebowitz, Wangari Maathai, Jay McInerney, Albert Murray, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Richard Pryor, Manuel Puig, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Lucy Sante, Nina Simone, Robert Farris Thompson, Henry Threadgill, Colm Toibin, and John Edgar Wideman. McDonald is a recipient of the American Book Award for Editor/Publisher and of the Distinguished Leadership in Literacy Award from Literacy Partners. McDonald has served as chair of the board of directors of the Center for Fiction, and as a trustee of PEN America, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Brearley School and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.